New Dawn of Scare (Second Lordi Saga - Story 1)

Chapter 16 - Lost Past

In the human and monster worlds, the situation had changed, only further accentuating the general chaos that reigned there. The giant prisms had caused new shock waves, much more powerful and larger, causing an earthquake that shook the entire planet. This also had the effect of enlarging the maesltroms in the sky, which turned into real storms and gradually formed like giant holes, similar to vortices. All over the world, under every prism, thousands of people in prey of madness came to commit suicide, forming larger and larger mass graves, all under the fanatic songs of the Children of the Trinity.

The military armies of the whole world had put all their resources in order to destroy these prisms and these legions of abominations which were born without interruption from the corpses of the suicides, but nothing to do.

There was only one hope left now, not just for this world, but for all ...

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Mr. Lordi, Emily, Hella, Mathias, Awa, Ox, Amen, Kita, Mana and Otus ... They all came out together from the vortex that had led them to the place where the fate of this world was to be determined. Not all of them said a word and showed great concentration on their faces, knowing the stakes.

In front of them were the snow-capped remains of what had indeed been a rather traditional country village, itself surrounded by hills and forests, as in a huge crater and only accessible by one road, which has also been for a long time destroyed and gradually covered by nature which had resumed its rights.

The group set off under a rain of snowflakes that began to fall from the sea of ​​dark clouds that obscured the sky. Only the sound of the whistling wind was heard, as well as the crackling of rotten wood coming from the ruins of the dwellings. This vision of the dead village gave chills to Emily and Mathias, who almost felt like they were in the village from Resident Evil 8, but hoping it wasn't infested with lycans.

_ "This place gives me goosebumps ..." Emily confessed uncomfortably.

_ "No wonder when you know the past of this place ..." answered Mathias, not really reassured either. "And yet, according to what my parents wrote, this village was inhabited until the 1980s. One day, without explanation, all the inhabitants disappeared without a trace, and nobody never knew what had happened."

Another story of a mysterious disappearance, which was hardly heartwarming.

The group walked for a few minutes, passing through the paths between the houses, until they finally reached a large open space which was to be the central square of the village. Immediately a small snowy hill presented itself to them, with at its top a cluster of large worn and flat stones erected and placed in a circle, very reminiscent of the site of Stonehenge in England.

A really unusual thing in a village, but everyone guessed easily what it was. They all went up to the top of the hill, looking at these stones a little closer. Their very eroded and ancient surface having suffered the ravages of time, were marked on all sides by rows of absurd and esoteric symbols, all engraved by hand. No one could understand them. Putting her palm against one of the stones, Awa immediately removed it, wincing in discomfort, feeling through her spiritual powers all the darkness, all the misfortunes and the deaths that had taken place here.

_ "Are you alright?" Ox asked her when she saw her like that.

_ "Yes ... yes, don't worry." she tells him.

For her part, as Hella walked around the large stones, her gaze was drawn to one of the crumbling houses near the square. Immediately, a flash, like a kind of confused memory, exploded in her mind ... She saw this house again, whole and new, and with the strong feeling of having already known it ...